"The volume and complexity of the evidence in this prosecution fully support the defense request for a brief continuance of the trial date," Judge Brinkema said in setting a new schedule, with final jury selection and opening statements on Jan . 6
Warren's office declined a VICE News request for a brief interview about race specifically, saying they weren't granting interviews.
The government and Microsoft asked that Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly hold a one-day hearing on the settlement on March 4. The request for such a brief hearing may be wishful thinking, according to legal scholars.
Though the pair engaged in a spirited and nasty debate on Oct. 17, Mr. Nelson's basic strategy has been to attack Mr. Mack, refuse more face-to-face encounters with him and basically hope no one notices that there is a Senate campaign going on here (through a spokesman, he declined repeated requests for even a brief interview).
In a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican who is chairman of the committee, accused the Justice Department of dragging its feet in responding to his request more than a month ago for a briefing on the operations, which allow D.E.A. agents to pose as money launderers and smugglers in order to infiltrate drug-trafficking organizations.
It was important that the request not leak out: "Because I had been reviewing the various war plans regularly," Mr. Rumsfeld adds, "I knew no one would think it out of the ordinary for me to request a briefing on our existing options on Iraq.
In an article titled "Hot Air: The Case Against Michael Jordan," writer Michael Crawley writes that the line was Mr. Jordan's response to a request for a "single quote or a brief photo op" by the Tar Heel Blue deity from then-Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt.
NASA chief Charles Bolden is reviewing a request from a U.S. senator for a briefing on alleged misconduct at the agency's Ames Research Center (ARC) in California.
Still, it seems unlikely that five justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will accept Bullock's argument -- or even, at the very least, his request for full briefing and hearing -- as Montana Justice James Nelson noted in a dissent from his court's opinion nearly two months ago.
It's unclear why the number is so low if hundreds of thousands agreed to the terms, but the app may only have requested messaging access for a brief period — stopping, perhaps, upon finding that people balked at granting it.
